<p class="poetry">Indeed, they<n id="1" /> will be ashamed of the sacred treesp> <p class="poetry">you<n id="2" /> find so desirable;p> <p class="poetry">you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">where you choose to worship.p>

<p class="poetry">For you will be like a tree whose leaves wither,p> <p class="poetry">like an orchard<n id="1" /> that is unwatered.p>

<p class="poetry">These people continually and blatantly offend me<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and burn incense on brick altars.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For just as the ground produces its cropsp> <p class="poetry">and a garden yields its produce,p> <p class="poetry">so the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> will cause deliverance<n id="1" /> to grow,p> <p class="poetry">and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for those who consecrate and ritually purify themselves so they can follow their leader and worship in the sacred orchards,<n id="1" /> those who eat the flesh of pigs and other disgusting creatures, like mice<n id="2" /> &#8211; they will all be destroyed together,&#8221;<n id="3" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.